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Description: A little place by my first little place in SL ever, and close to the welcome center i spent a lot of time at awhile back. some freebies, and randomness. SLUR:http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shiot/4/45/122
Name:Fuzzy Bee Owner: Quinby Hancroft
Description: Furniture clothing clothes shirts tables beds couches couch table bed kitchen bedroom fan dresser cabinets chair chairs living room home decor office rug lamp mirror low prim linden home SLUR:http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shiot/73/29/106
Name:Art In Frames / Authentic Replica Owner: Sabre Parabola
Description: Modern, contemporary and abstract art for your home. Nothing over 100L. Stop by my store and have a look around. New pieces added often. Art, Wall Decor, Scenery, Decoration, Modern, Abstract, Contemporary, Pop Art, Paintings, Sculpture, Photographs,
As you may know, our resident Nero has gone AWOL, so benevolent Scottish person, Jasmine Hancroft has agreed to begin the search for a replacement:
I am representing Hanja a lovely welcome area in SecondLife.
There has recently been a vacancy for our resident Nero who is sadly missing in action.
We would like to invite any interested parties who would care to replace please send there CV to Jasmine Hancroft.
In order to be considered for the post of resident Nero of Hanja you must meet the following criteria:
1. You must have a distinctive accent - Scottish is preferable but not essential
2. You must be opinionated.
3. Red hair is essential - non negotiable
4. Must be married or living with someone in real life
5. You must have children in real life
6. Must have charisma
7. Must not be afraid to express himself
8. Must be a gambler
9. Must be able to sing in tune
10. Must love Neslon Mandella
The Hanja Welcome center rests in the center of the Jeogeot continent.
It comprises the intersection of four sims including: Gukyeol, Hangeul, Hanja, and Idu
The four corners design allows the Hanja welcome center to hold up to one hundred sixty avatars.
Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. It refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation.
Hangul, is the native alphabet of the Korean language. It was created in the mid-fifteenth century, and is now the official script of both North and South Korea.
Gukyeol and Idu are archaic writing systems that represents the Korean language using hanja.
You can't get good help anymore so I bought t his Robot Waiter for the Hanja Hangout. It cost only $L75 from D-Lab. You can get your own here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/6pi/70/187/257
He's the coolest little guy. He walks around with a tray of champaigne. Click on the tray to get a glass. You can see him at the Hanja Hangout. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shiot/74/47/107
Dozens of Robot Waiters Attack Maybe at Hobo Island
Determined to have peace and security, Parktown Officials today announced the deployment of the X-47-SL Ultimate SecondLife Security Weapon.
Boyd Doghouse and Dr Mortimer Hoof install the X-47-SL
device on the border between Hanja and Parktown.
A combination device developed by Dr. Mortimer Hoof (using alien Gurbux technology), the X-47-SL listens to, orbits, and if necessary kills avatars.
Listener:
With an effective range of 9,000 meters, the X-47-SL not only listens to and records all private and local chat communications on SecondLife, it also picks up all communications sent by MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Skype (including video conferences), Tiny Chat, Facebook and Email.
Orbiter:
With special attention to the ever-present threat of invasion by drunken Scotsmen, the X-47-SL can orbit any drunken limey to a height of 11,000 meters almost instantly. Benevolent Scottish person, Jasmine Hancroft agreed to get drunk just so we could test this function of the weapon.
Alt-Detection:
Although Linden Labs allows users of SecondLife to have up to five alternate accounts per household, Parktown Officials considers this a particular threat and designed the X-47-SL to detect all alts ever used by a SecondLife avatar, as well as picking up any accounts or screen names they might use on WoW, EVE, IMVU and Steam.
Armageddon:
In the unlikely event that all else fails, the X-47-SL can guarantee the security of Parktown Residents by detonation (as a final option) killing all avatars in a 29,000 meter radius. We have made arrangements with the Lindens to test the detonation option next month, with test sights in Ahern and Waterhead.
The device is programmed to begin playing music by Swedish Supergroup Abba 30 seconds before detonation, so if you hear Abba in SecondLife, RUN LIKE HELL!
I'd given up all hope of ever renting lot 13 in ParktownShiot. Located between Megan Bathgate's abandoned sex hotel and Astin Miles' Urban Grunge store and above the city's sewer and catacombs, Lot 13 wasn't very attractive to anyone. It was the bad side of Parktown.
I really only acquired the parcel to link north and south ParktownShiot and bought them at the lowest price possible from the Lindens, as they original owners mysteriously disappeared leaving all their belongings. With no hope of renting the parcel I resolved to turn it into a station house for our proposed rail system, when one day a new user contacted me saying he was interested in the lot.
His name was Mortimer Hoof, and he was very eager to see the lot. Absolutely disinterested in the surface area he'd be renting, Hoof only wanted to see the underground catacombs and sewer beneath the lot.
He was a very curious looking person: very short by SL standards, and with something of a pot belly. His skin was pale and yellow and his sideburns grew completely out of control. Most curiously, Hoof carried an umbrella with him wherever he went. "I don't like the sun", he said.
Despite the rats and sewage he saw underground, and rumors of ghosts above ground, Hoof was absolutely delighted with lot 13 and eager to rent it. His grandmother had seen it in a vision and Mortimer and his new bride decided they must have it.
I mentioned a price and Hoof pulled out a fat roll of Linden Dollars and paid for six months on the spot, giving me another ten thousand linden dollars to design and build a house for him on the lot. "Victorian" he said. "My wife and I are a bit old fashioned."
From my observation, the most common faith in SecondLife is probably no faith at all. For a technologically driven social apparatus, it's not surprising that many, if not most, of the participants are atheists.
Yet, knowing faith isn't a major part of SecondLife, I built a church. Why?
I can tell you, it wasn't to proselytize or evangelize. I am a christian, but I wouldn't be foolish enough to ask anyone to follow me because I don't really know where I'm going. My only hope is that people find their own peace with what they believe, no matter what it is.
I built a church because churches do and mean a lot more than just spreading religion. Secondlife is a community, and communities need a place to mark the passing of the major milestones in life: birth, marriage, death, and for centuries most of the cultures SecondLife users belong to used churches as a place of meeting and sharing these experiences. Churches become focal points for communities, even when it's not a faith-based community.
Many functions of churches have nothing to do with the magical thinking most often associated with religion. We are communal creatures and, to me, places of worship celebrate this communal nature and give us a place to express it and share it.
My church looks like a typical Catholic or Anglican chapel, but that's only because most of the people I know in Secondlife come from that sort of western tradition, but also because it just appeals to me aesthetically.
It is not a Catholic or Anglican church though. It's not even particularly a christian church, and I've made an effort to incorporate symbols from many different faiths in it to respect the friend's I've made here who weren't from christian cultures, but also to express my considered opinion that it's unlikely any one faith can claim to really know "the truth" about life, so a reasonable man is willing to leave himself open to whatever he can learn from any or all of them.
There's a second reason I made a church in SecondLife though, and it addresses how the use of digital avatars to represent ourselves might be a pretty good metaphor for the ultimate question of "what is man?".
Are we: our physical body? our mind? our brain? our spirit? our digital avatar? What are we?
Many faiths talk about a second life to come after this one; a life without pain or want or suffering, and here in SecondLife, we've made just that. Is SecondLife a metaphor for heaven? Are we using this digital platform to create a model for ourselves of what we've always dreamed of?
One of the most common things you'll see new SecondLife users acquire and wear is angel's wings. There's an infinate variety of wings here, from the crude free ones to the elaborate scripted ones.
I don't know that I believe in angels per se, but could it be the angel archetype is so ingrained in us that it only seems fitting people should have wings when they get here?
Operated by Parktown regulars, Polyhistor Serpente and Quinby Hancroft, FuzzyBee offers clothing and well crafted, but low prim home furnishings. They're right across from the Hanja Hangout so check them out today!
Hanja residents held a demonstration yesterday to protest the suspension of fellow Hanjite, Sha Jinx earlier that week.
I've known Sha since my return to SecondLife Last year and have never known her to do anything even remotely in violation of the terms of service. Turning in a false abuse report on a person is in itself a violation of the terms of service, so I can only assume that who ever AR'ed Sha was either mistaken, in which case they should apologize, or were malicious, in which case payback is hell.
We'll keep this protest sign up on the Hanja Hangout until Sha Jinx is free.
Parktown got a little big bigger last week when we acquired the corner lot between Shiot and Hangeul.
Parktown regular Glurp Gurbux suggested the town needed a clock tower and since I had just the right script for it and since that key piece of property needed an eye-catching attraction, I set to work putting together an art-deco version of Big Ben.
The East face of the tower shows GMT or UK time while the other three faces show SL time. As I adjust the scripts one of those faces will show Central time. Any suggestions for the other two faces?
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From my observation, the most common faith in SecondLife is probably no faith at all. For a technologically driven social apparatus, it's not surprising that many, if not most, of the participants are atheists.
FuzzyBee is the latest new business in Parktown.
Fun for children of all ages!
Photo by: Shazz Larnia
Sabre Parabola slays in that style
Dancing Fartian
Flowergirls
Who knew Poly and Quinby would make such a cute couple.
Hattie, UzUz (george), Shazz and Natalie
Sabre Parabola
Tanisha, Shazz and Natalie
DJ Sy Muggins at the Keyboard
